I Had To Crawl To Arizona

i had to crawl all the way to Arizonaa place i didn't especially want to bebut you see, i was arrested for some little minor infractionand that was the sentence the judge handed mehe said to me "boy, get on your hands and knees and start crawling"then there was one more thing that he saidhe said "every lawman from here to Phoenix will be watching youand if you stand up even once they're gonna shoot you dead"

i had to crawl all the way to Arizona

now when you're crawling cross the desert man it's dangerousthere's scorpions and snakes all over the groundi was yelling i was screaming "i don't deserve this"but there wasn't anybody anywhere to hear the sound

i had to crawl all the way to Arizona

but it just so happened, friends, that fortune smiled on mecause i met a young lady who'd also been sentenced to crawlwe had a lot in common, plenty to talk aboutwe fell head over heels in love, i'm telling y'all

i had to crawl all the way to Arizona

so by the time we got to Arizona we were married straightawayi love that woman and i know i always willright now we're setting off on our wonderful honeymoonwe're gonna crawl across Mexico then crawl down to Brazil